Quotes About Art

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.